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[adelle38]

On 2/26/2015 Free2be said:

I have deliberately kept my internet provider service with a small company that spans 2 counties here in WA state. I'm sure they'd like to keep growing but they started out in one little town and that means a lot when the big guys offer all of these bundled deals to monopolize your services.

Those small companies have been increasingly harder to find and I hope these regulations will make a difference.

[RainCityGirl]

On 2/26/2015 Free2be said:

I have deliberately kept my internet provider service with a small company that spans 2 counties here in WA state. I'm sure they'd like to keep growing but they started out in one little town and that means a lot when the big guys offer all of these bundled deals to monopolize your services.

What counties? What businesses? I'm in King and am totally fed up with Comcast. They claim I have high speed internet. No way high speed takes as long as it takes for me. There are all kinds of extra fees and I just got my monthly price raised by $25 which Comcast loves to do after some promo runs out. At one point I was over $200 for phone, internet, and TV. Last month I paid $159; this month I'm over $180. I have had outages on cable TV, trouble with my email, sometimes not even able to access any of it, and my phone keeps cutting me off mid conversation intermittently. I call and they reset my modem and then in a few weeks it's all happening again. I would love to find another way to get my three necessities without paying an arm and a leg for something that doesn't work efficiently.

[tansy]

On 2/26/2015 RainCityGirl said:

On 2/26/2015 Free2be said:

I have deliberately kept my internet provider service with a small company that spans 2 counties here in WA state. I'm sure they'd like to keep growing but they started out in one little town and that means a lot when the big guys offer all of these bundled deals to monopolize your services.

What counties? What businesses? I'm in King and am totally fed up with Comcast. They claim I have high speed internet. No way high speed takes as long as it takes for me. There are all kinds of extra fees and I just got my monthly price raised by $25 which Comcast loves to do after some promo runs out. At one point I was over $200 for phone, internet, and TV. Last month I paid $159; this month I'm over $180. I have had outages on cable TV, trouble with my email, sometimes not even able to access any of it, and my phone keeps cutting me off mid conversation intermittently. I call and they reset my modem and then in a few weeks it's all happening again. I would love to find another way to get my three necessities without paying an arm and a leg for something that doesn't work efficiently.

I'm in King and would love to say goodbye to Comcast.

[adelle38]

"Popular victories like today's are so unusual that three Congressional committees are investigating how this happened," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a group that supports net neutrality. He added in a statement, "If the net neutrality effort had followed the usual playbook, if Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T had defeated the American people, nobody would be wondering why."

[SnowPink]

Quick three step quiz for anyone supporting Net Neutrality:

1. Does it take 332 pages to say that ISP's can't slow your access to a website?

2. If "no" - what else is contained in those 332 pages?

3. If "I don't know" - how can you possibly be supporting it?

[dooBdoo]

On 2/26/2015 adelle38 said:

On 2/26/2015 sfnative said:

This is so not good on so many levels. Those of you in seventh heaven right now? Get ready to pay an annual license to be able to own a television in the future and if you own even a teeny tiny website, you're now going to have to pay the government for that. My daughter has her own small business website and is getting skewered by this nonsensical "regsmashlation" that is going to cost her $$ that she doesn't have.

Get ready for all of the money you're going to have to pay on a monthly or annual basis for each and every regulation contained within the 300+ pages of THE regulation. (have YOU seen that regulatory 300+ pages published????????) Yes, the pots' fav FCC has won. But what have they won? They've carved out a piece of my life they have no right to.

They won the right to tax us, without representation I remind you, to pay for this and that, which should have been paid for by funds which were wasted away by politicians who seem to think that the taxpayor pockets are an endless source of payday.

Please give us the factual information from which you made these conclusions. Since we all have representatives for whom we vote, there may be taxation with which we disagree, but there is no taxation without representation. Since this is about the internet what does it have to do with a television license?

I'd like to know her sources, too. I can't find anything to substantiate those claims and some of the info I've found is exactly the opposite of them.

sfnative, Without these protections, your daughter's small website would be in peril of being harmfully affected. That's one reason Etsy was so involved in petitioning for these regulations.

[RainCityGirl]

On 2/26/2015 adelle38 said:

"Popular victories like today's are so unusual that three Congressional committees are investigating how this happened," said David Segal, executive director of Demand Progress, a group that supports net neutrality. He added in a statement, "If the net neutrality effort had followed the usual playbook, if Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T had defeated the American people, nobody would be wondering why."

Great s cr ew the people over once again by making their taxes pay for 3 congressional committees who don't like that the people scored a victory. That is exactly why nothing gets done in congress for the better of the citizens. The high rollers met with defeat. We just can't have that....that's what the lobbyists pay them for.

[SydneyH]

On 2/26/2015 SnowPink said:

Quick three step quiz for anyone supporting Net Neutrality:

1. Does it take 332 pages to say that ISP's can't slow your access to a website?

2. If "no" - what else is contained in those 332 pages?

3. If "I don't know" - how can you possibly be supporting it?

I don't necessarily see this a victory for consumers, not a single person I know can recap what's in the entire proposal.

[Blahblahvampemer]

On 2/26/2015 hckynut said: Regulation by whom? Am I to presume this means by beaurocrats?

Yes. Europe essentially has this, and it has cost them dearly. R&D dropped, and costs went up. George Soros is a big backer of this, and he's the one that said the only thing standing between him and the one-world gov he wants is America. NN is a solution to a problem we don't have. There are also movements on the dem side to start reigning in 1A rights, and this is the first step.

[Ismilealot]

On 2/26/2015 SydneyH said:

On 2/26/2015 SnowPink said: <p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;"> Quick three step quiz for anyone supporting Net Neutrality: <p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;"> 1. Does it take 332 pages to say that ISP's can't slow your access to a website? <p style="margin: 6px 0px; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 15.4559993743896px;"> 2. If "no" - what else is contained in those 332 pages?

<p style="margin: 0px 0px 6px;">3. If "I don't know" - how can you possibly be supporting it?

I don't necessarily see this a victory for consumers, not a single person I know can recap what's in the entire proposal.

The parts they WANT us to know are made public, the rest...not so much.